constraint-analysis
ProductivityWhat limits us — identify bottlenecks, quantify constraints, analyze dependencies, resolve conflicts before experiment execution
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Campaign 2: Constraint Analysis
HARD-GATE
Before entering this campaign, the following must be true:
| Gate | Condition |
|---|---|
| Research direction exists | North star or research question is crystallized |
| Scope is bounded | Problem space has defined boundaries |
| Resources are enumerable | Can list available compute, data, time, people, budget |
| Stakeholders identified | Know who cares about the outcome |
If any gate fails, return to Campaign 1 (research-direction) or pre-campaign intake.
Campaign Goal
Produce a comprehensive constraint profile that identifies:
- The system bottleneck (TOC focusing)
- Resource gaps (demand vs supply)
- Fragile assumptions (vulnerability ranked)
- Dependency chains (critical path)
- Conflicts between constraints (with resolution injections)
Strategy Selection
| Situation | Strategy | When to Use |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown bottleneck | bottleneck-identification | System performance is limited but cause unclear |
| Resource uncertainty | resource-constraint | Need to verify feasibility of resource plan |
| Assumption risk | assumption-constraint | Key assumptions untested or fragile |
| Sequencing unclear | dependency-constraint | Task ordering and prerequisites unknown |
| Conflicting demands | conflict-resolution | Two or more constraints oppose each other |
Default execution order: bottleneck-identification → resource-constraint → assumption-constraint → dependency-constraint → conflict-resolution
Budget Gate
| Resource | Budget | Escalation |
|---|---|---|
| Subagent calls | ≤15 per strategy | Pause and report partial |
| Wall-clock time | ≤30 min per strategy | Checkpoint and continue |
| Context tokens | ≤80k per strategy | Summarize and spawn fresh |
| Total campaign | ≤5 strategies | Skip if constraint already resolved |
Context Management
- Each strategy produces a structured artifact (table/tree/graph)
- Artifacts are passed forward as compressed summaries
- Full details stored in vault pages for later retrieval
- Campaign synthesis merges all strategy outputs
Minimum Yield
Campaign is complete when:
- At least 1 binding constraint identified and characterized
- Resource feasibility assessed (go/no-go)
- Critical dependency chain mapped
- No unresolved conflicts between top-3 constraints
- Constraint synthesis report produced
Context Recording
研究过程经 context-management 落盘，与最终报告分属不同文件：
- 进入本 campaign 时：import context-init，topic-slug 传
constraint-analysis， 建立本 campaign 的过程 context 文件。init 幂等——同 Phase 重入返回原文件。 - 每个 strategy 完成后：import context-checkpoint（硬约束，不可跳过），把该 strategy 的过程与中间产出 append 进上一步的过程文件。
- 最终报告不写进这个过程文件——由本 campaign 的 synthesis SOP（constraint-synthesis）
另起
constraint-analysis-report文件落盘（见该 SOP）。
Available Strategies
Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.
| Strategy | When to use |
|---|---|
| assumption-constraint | Which assumptions are most fragile? — Vulnerability ranking + impact assessment of experiment assumptions |
| conflict-resolution | How do constraints conflict with each other? — Evaporating Cloud + assumption challenging + injection to resolve constraint conflicts |
| dependency-constraint | What must be completed first? — Dependency chain analysis + prerequisite graph construction |
| experiment-execution-bottleneck-identification | Where is the system bottleneck? — TOC 5 Focusing Steps + Current Reality Tree to find the binding constraint |
| resource-constraint | Are resources sufficient? — Quantify compute, data, time, human, and financial resource constraints |
Available Tactics
Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.
| Tactic | When to use |
|---|---|
| constraint-breaking | Orchestrate the full constraint-breaking cycle: extract conflict, challenge assumptions, project resolution |
| constraint-tree-building | Build Current Reality Tree from UDEs through causal chains to core conflicts |
| sensitivity-ranking | Rank constraints by sensitivity — which ones most impact the outcome if they shift |
Available SOPs
Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.
| SOP | When to use |
|---|---|
| constraint-synthesis | Synthesize constraint analysis into actionable report with priorities |
| context-checkpoint | Append research process and results to the current Phase's context file. Each append MUST contain >=500 lines of markdown covering both process and results. Use this skill at plan-designated checkpoint points — typically after each strategy completes or at key decision nodes within a research Phase. |
| context-init | Create a new context file for a research Phase. Called once at Phase start to initialize the file that subsequent context-checkpoint calls will append to. Use this skill whenever a new research Phase begins and a fresh context file is needed. |
| experiment-execution-paper-overview | Import SOP: paper landscape scan (from literature-engine skill) |
| experiment-execution-paper-research | Import SOP: paper full-text reading (from literature-engine skill) |
| experiment-execution-paper-search | Import SOP: paper AI summary reading (from literature-engine skill) |
| experiment-execution-quality-gate-check | Shared SOP: verify quality gate criteria are met before proceeding |
| experiment-execution-saturation-detection | Shared SOP: detect information saturation — know when to stop searching/analyzing |
| experiment-execution-web-research | Import SOP: deep full-page content analysis (from web-browsing skill) |
| experiment-execution-web-search | Import SOP: quick web scan discovery (from web-browsing skill) |